The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-08
LONDON NOTES.
Story of an Australian The
Case of Miss Cass


and furious during jubilee week, and, prob
ably, the drafts on the bank accounts of the
people were so much larger than usual that
London is very rapidly employing out.
The brilliancy of the functions attendant
upon the jubilee is probably the reason why
the ordinary events with which the season
winds up seem very unintereSting and tame
this year; in fact, have never seen London
look so much like August so early in July
as 1t does at present. Notwithstanding the
lovely weather which still prevails.
the cricket matches at Lords excited very
little attention, interest being chiefly re-
markable from the display of gowns which
had been worn before as described in the
society papers. The Queen and court viii
remove to Osborne next Monday or Tues
day, and then the season may be said to
have closed. During all the fatigue and
excitement, incident to the jubilee festivi-
ties, the Queen has preserved her good
health and her good humor, facts which
are more surprising to her, probably, than
to any one else since it is well known that
she looked forward with much anxiety to
the enormous amount of work which would
be entailed upon her. 1t is the hope of
everybody in England that her experience
will teach her that she is better off and her
people as well, when she comes out into the
world, and for the rest of her days she will
live in London and less in the wilds of Scot
land
If fishes ever smile, the finny ones of the
Atlantic must be grinning broadly at the
expense of lady who is at this moment
steaming over them towards New Zealand.
But the fishes in a certain old fish pond at
Hampton Court must be grinning broader
still One OF the blue-blooded, but penu-
rious, old ladies who live at this royal
almshouse was, it seems, furnished with q
ticket for viewing the ceremony in the
Abbey on Jubilee Day But as the ticket
for the Abbey was not accompanied by
return ticket to Waterloo, or the price
thereof, the decayed gentlewoman horrible
phrase, set about selling her seat. The
ticket was put into the hands of an
respectable figure, and he had not
long wait for a purchaser. A "'Royalty
mad" Australian woman, who came over in
April with never to be realized hopes of
being presented at a drawing-rOom and
who has since consoled herself for her failure
by frightening all the cats out of Grosvenor
Square in vain attempts to give fashionably
attended musical evenings answered the
agents advertisement. Fifteen sovereigns
in order to get within hundred yards of
one were duly handed over by the antipo-
dean female. Ten of them were sent to the
old lady at Hampton Court, and five were
pocketed by the agent as commission. On
the eventful morning 10 o'clock found the
female from the under side, clad i'll colors
which would have taken the shine out of q
gross of rainbows, at the gates of the Abbey.
She had been cautioned by the agent that
she was for that occasion only Mrs. c.,
Hampton Court Palace, whose name ap-
peared on the card. But when the gentle
w Oh ha door. fppLr fha card and
glancing at the name pondered while be-
fore admitting her, she began to quake with
fear. And she quaked with another senti-
ment than fear when the usher spoke to a
superior usher in an audible whisper to the
effect that "this isn't Mrs. c.; Mrs. c.
has got yellow hair and no teeth, and this
ones got yellow teeth and no hair. What
are we to do?' "Why, send her away"
was the reply; and the poor cluster" had to
go sadly and sorrowfully away from the
door which had cost her els. Then she went
and booked her passage for home, and the
cats in Grosvenor Square are at rest.
The one topic of discussion in London
this week has been the case of Miss Cas-,
respectable lady who was arrested in Regent
street between 8 and 10 p M, on the charge
of soliciting. The papers not having any
thing else for a sensation, became fairly
historical over it, and motion to adjourn
III the House of Commons which
was their round about way of getting
at, discussion of Miss Cas- case
resulted in a disastrous defeat of the
government What Gladstone, the Par
nelites and the Liberals combined have
been unable to do has been accomplished
by little unknown seamstress. | have
the greatest sympathy with this young
woman and must not be understood to be
belttling her wrongs, but it does seem the
most absurd thing in the world that in
order to right this, the whole of London
should be turned topSy-turvy, and the sta
bility of her majesty's government, as at
present constituted, should be endangered.
Another thing is that while there is all this
historical shr'ieking over Miss Cass' case
neither the public nor Parliament seem to
realize that it is only an incidental abuse
growing out of that which is the greatest dis
grace to the greatest city in the world.
London turns her vice into the streets,
other cities try and confine it within doors
and within certain limits The result is
London is the most immoral city i'll tie
world. The i'll effect of this system, is that
not only the most fashionable quarter of
the CITY after o'clock at night is a seeth-
ing mass of corruption, for that sort of
thing always exists in every large city; but
the dreadful part of it is that not only are
the feelings of decent men and women of all
classes outraged, by having this specta
Gle thrust under their noses. But the great
est evil of all comes from the fact that
poorly educated, badly trained girls, of the
lower orders who are compelled to drudge
all day for a poor pittance, and who, not
knowing of the penalties and pains Incl
dent TO life such as is led by women of the
dpmi monde. see the masses of girls who
present the spectacle of having abundant
leisure and plenty of money, and this the
greatest temptation that can possibly be
placed before the girls of the working
classes is furnished by the stupid English
system
If the Cass case would lead TO some effic-
lent means of stopping the soliciting which
gees on in prominent London thorough
fares from 10 until 2 tho next morning, some
good might be accomplished; but as it is, |
fear il will only end like all these things do
in London in a nine DAYS wonder There are
people who say Mr. Steadaccomplished some
GOOD by the publication of the maiden
Tribute TO Modern Babylon" in tho
PaU Nal Gazette, but from my knowledg3
of London before and since you may take
my word for it that it is not so. Vice can
not be stamped out in a city OF this size, but
by iudicious legislation it can be kept UNI
der, and not promoted as it is here every
day.
Miss Grace Hawthorne has at length en-
tered into the management of the PrincesSes
Theatre, vice Wilson Barrett. Her opening
took place last night, and she selected for
production Joseph Jefferson and l.. Il.
iShewell's play Shadows Of Great City"
THO house was packed with Americans, and